Pakistan blasted the Indian government’s decision to enforce the controversial citizenship bill passed in 2019, claiming the discriminatory legislation “further exposes the sinister agenda” of the Modi dictatorship.
India proceeded to apply the controversial anti-Muslim rule on Monday, just weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) provides Indian citizenship to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India due to religious “persecution from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan before December 31, 2014”.
As demonstrations and sectarian violence erupted in New Delhi and elsewhere, Modi’s government failed to enforce the law, which was enacted in December 2019.
During days of violence, scores of people were murdered and hundreds injured.”Yes, we have seen the reports on notification of certain news pursuant to the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 and the ugly debate that is currently taking place in India with regards to Muslims, minorities, and immigrants,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said at a weekly press briefing.
